This 4-part workshop series provides essential tools to help managers at all levels enhance their leadership capabilities.

Participants will dive into key topics such as:

• Developing Responsive Leadership: Developing the skills to lead with confidence in changing situations. This workshop helps you adapt to new challenges while keeping your team on track and focused on your nonprofit’s mission.
• Strengthening Delegation Skills: Learning how to delegate tasks in a way that supports team growth and keeps everyone accountable. This session will show you how to empower your team while ensuring important work gets done.
• Handling Crucial Conversations: Navigating difficult conversations with clarity, empathy, and respect. This workshop will give you tools to handle sensitive discussions and maintain positive relationships, even in high-stakes situations.
• Improving Program Processes: Finding ways to simplify tasks and processes so your team can work more efficiently. This session will help you create smoother workflows and improve productivity without compromising quality.

Whether you’re an experienced manager or looking to grow your leadership skills, this series offers valuable insights to drive team and organizational success.

Register to attend all four sessions in the series by February 3, 2025 and receive a $5 discount per session.  This registration allows one individual to attend all four sessions and is non-transferrable.

Register For All Four Sessions

Individual session registrations will be charged full price.

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Session 1: February 5, 2025, 10:00 am – 1:00 pm, in-person at TCPL

From Conflict to Collaboration: Build Stronger Teams, Achieve Bigger Goals
with Erica Marx
$70

Teams today face tough challenges—shifts in leadership, competing priorities, or unresolved tensions. These moments often surface important questions and conflicts, signaling opportunities for deeper alignment and stronger collaboration. Whether you’re a leader or team member, you’ll leave with tools and insights to create lasting impact within your organization.

By the end of this workshop, you will:

• Map your team’s dynamics using Amy Edmondson’s psychological safety framework to understand where your team stands and identify shifts needed for better performance.
• Build trust and connection with activities that create a sense of shared purpose you can bring back to your team.
• Explore challenges as opportunities by separating people from content, practicing strategies for productive, shared problem-solving.
• Unlock fresh perspectives through processes that amplify creativity and integrate diverse viewpoints. Learn how to navigate differences and turn them into strengths.
• Clarify actionable steps by applying these tools to a real challenge or goal. Leave with practical strategies to help your team move forward with alignment and focus.

Bring a specific goal or challenge you’re facing to this session!

Register For Session 1 Only

 

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Session 2: February 19, 2025, 10:00 am – 1:00 pm, in-person at TCPL

Tough Conversations Made Easy (or at least a little less tough) with Munna Rubaii
$70

In this workshop, we will analyze what makes some conversations tough, assess some typical responses and their consequences, and develop strategies for improving skills and confidence in holding those conversations.

 

Register For Session 2 Only

 

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Session 3: March 5, 2025, 10:00 am – 12:00 pm, virtual via Zoom

Program Sustainability & Strategy: A Practical Guide to Long-Term Success with Heidi Holtz
$40

In this 2-hour, interactive, workshop we will center on the Nonprofit Sustainability Mindset developed by Jeanne Bell and Steve Zimmerman. The model allows for nimble, flexible approaches that organizations need to look at programs (including fundraising programs) with two bottom lines: Mission Impact and Profitability. Through this process an organization can map where the programs land and determine how to approach their long-term sustainability. Organizations will find it valuable to bring an understanding of their programs and overall budget detail.

Zoom link will be sent to your email at least 24 hours prior to the session.

 

Register For Session 3 Only

 

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Session 4: March 12, 2025, 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm, in-person at TCPL

Effective Delegation for Supervisors: Unlocking Your Team’s Full Potential with Amy Kohut
$70

Our organizations are built to do good work in the world, and there’s a lot to do. How do we effectively manage all our work and the work of our team for the greatest good? Have you thought to yourself ‘If I don’t do it, it won’t get done right’? Effectively delegating is much more than giving people tasks to do, it’s about being clear together on outcomes, timelines, accountability, and measures of success.

This session explores this topic with practical strategies and direct take-aways to manage your own and your team’s workloads for greater effectiveness.

You will:

• Learn how to delegate tasks effectively and set clear expectations, commitment, and accountability-Understand how to identify the right people for the job and build trust within your team
• Gain confidence in providing supportive and constructive feedback, while empowering your team to take responsibility and stay accountable.
• Explore typical reasons why people don’t delegate and practical strategies to overcome those.

 

Register For Session 4 Only

 

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About the Presenters:

Erica Marx, M.S. is an Executive and Team Coach who helps leaders and teams create positive, creative, and collaborative environments. With over 20 years of experience in facilitation, mediation, and leadership coaching, she specializes in designing transformative processes that help groups navigate complexity, build trust, and align around shared goals.

Erica is a PCC-certified professional coach with the International Coach Federation (ICF), a NYS-certified mediator, and a board member of the International Applied Improvisation Network. She has a B.S. from Cornell University and a Masters of Science from the University of Florida.

Her work spans diverse sectors, including health and human services, government, and nonprofit organizations. She has supported regional, national, and international groups in helping them build equitable, collaborative processes that amplify voices and improve outcomes. Erica’s expertise lies in multi-stakeholder collaboration, inclusive facilitation, and designing for change in complex systems.
Known for her dynamic and engaging approach, Erica blends research-backed strategies with experiential methods, helping teams unlock their potential and navigate uncertainty with creativity and confidence.

Munna Rubaii retired from the New York State Office of Children and Family Services after 32 years of service. Initially a direct care provider in both secure and limited secure juvenile residential facilities, she capped her state career as a training manager, responsible for supervising regional training centers and providing training to facilities and offices throughout central and northern New York. Munna has also worked as a private consultant since 1995. Munna is a certified practitioner of the Meyers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), Step I and Step II. She has a Bachelor of Science degree from Cornell University and a Master of Science degree from the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry.

Heidi Holtz, MA, CLCC, ASCTH founded Stillwork Coaching and Consulting in 2018 and works with nonprofit, for-profit and municipal clients across several states. She focuses on building capacity through leadership coaching, organizational development assessments and workplans, board engagement, and trainings. Heidi is a Certified Holistic Life, Career, and Executive Coach through the Goal Imagery Institute, and a Certified Lifecycles Capacity Consultant in the Nonprofit Lifecycles™ capacity building model. Her background includes 25 years in leadership, fund development, and marketing with nonprofit arts organizations and a 13-year tenure at the Gifford Foundation in Syracuse NY where she served as Director of Grantmaking and Director of Research and Special Projects. During that time Heidi worked with nonprofits and other community-based organizations, served on city and county task forces, developed community engagement projects, and designed several initiatives boosting organizational and leadership capacity.

Heidi brings a broad-based and robust understanding of people, projects, networks, and initiatives. Heidi is a skilled facilitator trained in multiple formats and methods including certification in Appreciative Inquiry and training as a BoardSource consultant. She is a former adjunct faculty member at Syracuse University, where she taught courses in Nonprofit Board Leadership and Fund Development for Nonprofits. Her board service includes a variety of leadership positions. Heidi holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Denison University, and a Master of Theatre History/Certificate in Women’s Studies from Syracuse University.

Amy Kohut, PCC has been skillfully leading groups and individuals towards their professional goals for over 25 years. She has deep experience in many facets of professional realms: for-profit, non-profit, higher education and government.

As the owner of 1 Step Coaching and Consulting, she offers Leadership and Executive Coaching, Emotional Intelligence and Team Development workshops. She leads workshops and coaches using DiSC, MBTI, EQi 2.0 (Emotional Intelligence), LMAP 360, Leadership Profile Inventory, Strengthsfinder, the Leadership Wheel, and is a Professional Certified Coach with both the International Coach Federation and Presence-Based Coaching.

Amy served as the Director of Cornell University’s Team & Leadership Center from 2006-2016.  She continues to work for Cornell in the SC Johnson College of Business with the Executive MBA program as a team coach and is a Sr. Facilitator with the Cornell Team & Leadership Center. She is a faculty member of Presence-Based Coaching. She is a member of The International Coach Federation, is the Past Chair of the Board of Directors of the Experiential Training and Development Alliance, and is a faculty member of Presence Based Coaching, LLC. Amy has a Security Clearance.

Amy’s workshops, trainings and classes are both engaging and insightful. She lives in Brooktondale, NY.

 

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All registration sales are final.

Discounted registrations are non-transferrable.

Registration ends 48 hours prior to the first session. We are unable to accommodate registrations after the deadline.

Sessions on Feb. 5th, Feb. 19th, and March 12th are in-person only.

Session on March 5th will be virtual via Zoom only.